A gigantic spaceship entered the solar system and orbited Earth:

  “Hello, Earthlings! We’ve come from afar!”

  “How do you know English?” asked One-Earth Space Command.

  “We’ve analyzed your broadcasts …”

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  An alien ambassador sat down with a delegation of Earth scientists to answer questions:

  “How did you survive the journey?” asked a cosmologist.

  “We harvested building and fueling resources from asteroids, planets, and comets.”

  “But how did you eat and drink?” asked an exobiologist. “Surely you needed sustenance.”

  “Well …” The ambassador peeled a synthetic skin. “We uploaded our consciousness. There’s no way as organics we could’ve survived the trip!”